Ongoing History of New Music
Ongoing History of New Music looks at things from the alt-rock universe to hip hop, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. It is Canada’s most well known music documentary hosted by the legendary Alan Cross. Whatever the episode, you’re definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.
Episodes
November 26, 2025 • 33 mins
It’s been nearly a decade since David Bowie left us, and the world hasn’t really been the same since.
In the first of a three part series, we explore why Bowie’s influence goes far beyond music...shaping fashion, art, technology, and even social movements. From his early days writing songs he would really rather forger about...to the birth of Ziggy Stardust...his role in shaping glam rock, gender expression, and even the evolution...
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November 19, 2025 • 30 mins
If there’s an official mission statement for the kind of music we all love, it’s “sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll” …these are the three main food groups in this world…
All three of these things affect the same portions of the brain: the amygdala, the nucleus accumbens, and the cerebellum…. All of them are involved in the secretion and regulation of dopamine, the “feel-good” hormone…
Dopamine is a very addictive hormone…whenever our...
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November 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Going on tour is hard…you’re away from home for months at a time…there’s little sleep, bad food, too many drugs, a surfeit of alcohol, late nights, temptations into bad behavior, crazy people, and that bass player who refuses to wash his feet, probably because he’s on his phone moaning to his girlfriend about how miserable he is…
All that occupies about 22 hours of the day…the best times come when you’re at the venue…there’s th...
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November 5, 2025 • 31 mins
Why does music move us so deeply...even when we don’t hear it?
From brain scans lighting up with musical memories to how songs can fight loneliness, boost productivity, and even repel mosquitoes, this episode dives into the strange science behind sound with another exploration into the medical mysteries of music.
🧠 Discover:
Why music survives memory loss in Alzheimer’s
How your taste in music shifts with the time of day...
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October 29, 2025 • 35 mins
There are plenty of unexplained things in the world of music…these are things that we often don’t even question…why do we do these things?...what is this called that?...who came up with that idea?
Let’s deal with some of that.
This is another episode of something I call “The Rock Explainer”.
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October 25, 2025 • 36 mins
Taj Khyber Rowland knows he’s not who people think he is but he can’t quite remember how his life went so off course.
He decides to spool backwards, to his younger self. A daredevil seven year old Chellamuthu, living happily, but in abject poverty, with his large family in rural India.
But when Chellamuthu disobeys his mother and goes to play at the bus station, he’s persuaded to board a bus with some bigger boys.
He’s kidnap...
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October 22, 2025 • 34 mins
This episode is about giving credit where credit is due. Specifically to musicians who were so far ahead of their time that the public and the industry just didn’t get it, and as a result, they were ignored, shunned, unrewarded, or otherwise omitted from music history.
Most of these names might be new to you, but that’s not your fault…the music world just dropped the ball on these people… but that’s just wrong…they just happened t...
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October 15, 2025 • 27 mins
This is the second half at a look at the stories behind some of the most iconic album covers of all time…on part one, we looked at the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Depeche Mode, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Beastie Boys, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Smashing Pumpkins, all in chronological order, ending in 1993.
Now we’re going to pick things up in 1994.
This is part two of a show that looks at some of the most iconic-...
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October 8, 2025 • 27 mins
This is going to be a very visual program, which may be a bit of a challenge because you’re either listening to this as a radio show or podcast…so i need to work with me on this…
Vinyl is back in a way that no one could have ever predicted…in countries like Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, and beyond, vinyl is once again outselling CDs…and a surprising number of people are buying vinyl even if they don’t have a turntable…
Wha...
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October 1, 2025 • 26 mins
I’ve always been fascinated with recording studios…the atmosphere, the equipment, the musical gear, the slight scent of ozone from all the electricity running through the circuits.
Yeah, you can make very good records at home, but there’s
something special about recording a song or making an album in a professional recording studio…
This time, I’ve compiled a list of some of the best-known Oasis songs, and we’re about to go deep...
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September 24, 2025 • 29 mins
This program begins with an advisory…no, no—not that kind…there’s nothing dirty or obscene or controversially political coming up…it’s just that, well—what you’re about to hear is different…very different…and I mean really different.
There are thousands of music genres out there…but on this program, we’re going to look at something special…it’s a genre known as “outsider music”
You know the kid at school who seemed to live a lit...
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September 17, 2025 • 37 mins
This episode is directed at people who need to understand how their favourite bands got their names.
I will present you 60 band names over the course of this program…the first 20 will be a study of current popular groups…then we’ll move to some retro names, followed by some random labels.
And we’ll conclude with groups filed under “what were they thinking?,” “terrible original names,” “offensive names” (I’ll have to be careful...
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September 10, 2025 • 31 mins
Every once in a while, something extraordinary happens in rock’n’roll…I hate the use of the cliché of “a perfect storm,” but that’s precisely what I’m talking about…a bunch of things involving culture, politics, demographics, economics and technology all collide and mix in just the right way for something totally new and unexpected to be created…
Lemme give you some examples…Elvis came along in the 1950s just as millions of post-w...
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September 3, 2025 • 31 mins
One of the things that makes rock great is the energy and the power that comes with the music..and depending where you go, that energy and power varies from place to place...
If you’re looking to exorcise a little aggression and anger and frustration, you have several choices...there are various flavours of metal that can serve your purpose, ranging from the melodic (Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” for example) along with Sabbath and...
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August 27, 2025 • 27 mins
Sometimes people get so pissed off or so inspired by something that they just have to sing about it…this is the protest song and it’s been with us for centuries…
It’s music that encourages political and social change… and if done right—and if circumstances are correct—the song can mobilize people to take action, lift spirits and annoy (or even scare) authorities of the establishment…
Protest music comes in all forms: classical, f...
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August 20, 2025 • 29 mins
What do you for fun?...hobbies, pastimes—things that you do just for you, away from your job and all your other responsibilities?...
I’ve got my dogs…my wife and I like to travel…and I’ve always had this thing about the JFK assassination…I’ve read all the books, seen all the documentaries…I’ve even been to Dallas and the grassy knoll, and the book depository…I can’t explain it, but I just find it interesting…
Maybe you’re into sp...
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August 13, 2025 • 26 mins
We're going back into the Ongoing History archives to bring you a show a lot of people have asked about.
And with over 300 OGH podcasts, sometimes episodes get buried in the feed.
This is the second part of our Oral History of Madchester as told by someone who was there to see it and make it happen.
Gaz Whelan of the Happy Monday's!
This really is something else...
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August 6, 2025 • 31 mins
We're going back into the Ongoing History archives to bring you a show a lot of people have asked about.
And with over 300 OGH podcasts, sometimes episodes get buried in the feed.
This is the first of a two part series on the Oral History of Madchester as told by someone who was there to see it and make it happen.
Gaz Whelan of the Happy Monday's!
This really is something else...
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July 30, 2025 • 21 mins
For this week’s podcast, we’re going to revisit the Ongoing History of New Music vault for the second part of a two-part series on censorship in music.
Why are certain songs, bands, or styles of music censored? Who makes these decisions? Why? And what can musicians do about it?
Although this episode is from the earlier part of the ongoing history library, it remains highly relevant. We thought you’d enjoy listening… this is Censo...
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July 23, 2025 • 32 mins
For this week’s podcast, we’re going to revisit the Ongoing History of New Music vault for the first part of a two-part series on censorship in music.
Why are certain songs, bands, or styles of music censored? Who makes these decisions? Why? And what can musicians do about it?
Although this show is from the earlier part of the ongoing history library, it remains very relevant. We thought you’d enjoy listening… this is Censorshi...
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